Respecting the objects in metal stone or wood while some prove themselves by their appearance to be undoubted products of the ancient Buddhist civilization of Eastern Turkestan in the case of others their ago and provenance is quite uncertain Objects of this kind collect in the bazars of Khotan and other towns in Eastern Turkestan and the statements of the Natives regarding them are quite unr [...] The leaf shown in the Plate is the last of the inscribed leaves of the codex. [...] In all Pothis existing or surviving in India the hole is placed in the middle of the pile of leaves; or there are two holes at equal distances from the margin in the middle of the right and left halves of the pile. [...] But owing to the fragile nature of their material (palleaf or.birch-bark) the hole was naturally placed further away from the margin about the middle of the left half of the leaeres. [...] 1 of Set I which is written in the Indian type of the Gupta script but never uses the transitional form of y must be dated early in the 5th century and may* possibly go back to the latter part of the 4th century (see the evidence in the Journal Asiatic Society Bengal Vol.
- Pages
- 95
- Published in
- India
- SARF Document ID
- sarf.120250
